Author: santiagocaprio
Posted on
04/09/2020
People-Centred Smart Cities
Professor Santiago Caprio is elected as a member of the Expert Working Group (EWG) United Nations Human Settlements Programme to advise body responsible for the development of international guidelines on People-Centred Smart Cities. Promoting a people-centred smart cities approach that is consistent with the purpose and the principles of the Charter of the United Nations, including full respect for international law and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to ensure that innovation and digital technologies are used to help cities and...
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Posted on
11/18/2019
Urban acupuncture
defines urban acupuncture as a series of small-scale, highly focused interventions that have the capacity to regenerate or to begin a regeneration process in dead or damaged spaces and their surroundings....
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Posted on
11/17/2019
MA – Mimetic Architecture
is a programmatic approach to building design — the building is shaped to mimic, or copy, the function, usually a business function, or to suggest objects associated with their function. It's EXTREME "form follows function." It's more like "form IS function."...
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Posted on
09/09/2019
Voices of Resilience
Faced with the reality of a changing climate, people from across the Caribbean share their stories of loss, but also their hope and determination to rebuild their home better than it was before. ...
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Posted on
05/17/2019
Health and the City
The cities we live in, the way we move around urban areas, and the quality of the air we breathe constitute 50 per cent of the so-called “health determinants”.....
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